Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BRACE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1947), miners' leader and M.P. Great Britain, to seek (successfully) the affiliation of the South Wales union to the national body. In 1901 he was asked to serve on a Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the coal reserves of the United Kingdom. Five years later he entered Parliament as Labour member for the South Glamorgan division, defeating Colonel Wyndham-Quin, later earl of Dunraven. He continued to represent that
BRADFORD, JOHN (1706 - 1785), weaver, fuller, and dyer in Upper Glamorgan in the first half of the 18th century. Nevertheless, only a few of his poetic works are extant, and these do not reach a high standard. He corresponded with William Wynn, Llangynhafal and Lewis Morris, and he was elected a member of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion, London. He was also of some repute as a rationalist, and, although we do not know the details, it can be concluded
BRAOSE family on his daughter Aline and her husband, John de Mowbray (married at Swansea, 1298). Hugh le Despenser, lord of Glamorgan and king's chamberlain, aiming to acquire Gower for himself, endeavoured to secure the confiscation of the lordship to the Crown, asserting that William had alienated his lordship without the consent of the Crown. This called forth an attack on Despenser by the Marcher lords, who
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director P. H. Burton was born in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan on 30 November 1904. His parents were Emma Matilda Burton (née Mears, died 1934) and her second husband, Henry Burton (died 1919), a collier, originally from a middle class Staffordshire family. His mother, a nurse, had moved from Somerset to Mountain Ash as a child. Her son William Wilson (from her first marriage to a Scots collier working in
BUTE family (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), . Viscount Windsor sold some of the family's Monmouthshire lordships, but the Glamorgan estates descended to his granddaughter, CHARLOTTE JANE, co-heiress of the 2nd viscount. She married, 1766, JOHN, LORD MOUNTSTUART (1744 - 1814), son and heir of the 3rd earl of Bute, who was prime minister from 1762 to 1763. In 1776 lord Mountstuart was created baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle, and, in 1796, viscount
BUTTON, Sir THOMAS (d. April 1634), admiral and explorer He was the fourth son of Miles Button, sheriff of Glamorgan in 1565, 1571, 1589, and Margaret, daughter of Edward Lewis of Van. The Buttons had become possessed of Worleton, in the parish of S. Lythans, Glamorganshire, an alienated manor of the see of Llandaff. Their house at first was probably on the Dog Hill moated grange site, just across the Nant Golych, from the parish of S. Lythans and in
CADOG saint (fl. c. 450), one of the chief figures of the Celtic church in Wales of the famous Celtic monastery at Llancarfan (originally Nantcarfan) in the Vale of Glamorgan. Here he became renowned for his great learning, and for his work as a teacher of saints. Topographical evidence may indicate a more certain record of the provenance of a saint's cult than does the literary evidence now available to us, and the distribution of ancient churches named after S. Cadog shows a
CARADOG ap IESTYN (fl. 1130), founder of the family of 'Avene' in Glamorgan , therefore, seem that Iestyn, on the death of Caradog, rose out of an obscure station to be lord of Glamorgan and was the prince whom the Normans ejected when they attacked the region about 1090. The detailed account of the conquest given in Powel's Historie, 1584, confirmed as it is by no other source, must, however, be set aside as untrustworthy. Of Caradog, there is only one contemporary mention; with
CARNE, Sir EDWARD (c. 1500 - 1561), lawyer and diplomat of Salisbury and an English sinecure rectory, but disappointed him of a Welsh living in commendam; Pope Clement VII gratified him with a personal indulgence and one on behalf of the chapel of Holy Cross, Cowbridge, during Carne's lifetime; the tradition that he owed his knighthood to the emperor seems to be unfounded. Under the Act of Union he became first sheriff of Glamorgan (1542), and his name
CASNODYN (fl. 1320-40), poet The earliest Glamorgan poet whose compositions appear in the manuscripts. He also sang in Gwynedd and Ceredigion. It is not altogether certain which are his poems. The 'Red Book of Hergest' attributes poems to him which, according to The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, are the work of Gruffudd ap Maredudd, and The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, assigns to Casnodyn the awdl to Ieuan, abbot of
CECIL family Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) as a follower of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon in his conquest of the lordship of Glamorgan in the 11th century; he acquired the family seat of Allt-yr-ynys (now in Herefordshire, though the estate extends into Monmouthshire) by marriage into the family of the dispossessed Welsh owners. From this time on the 'Sitsyllts' generally married into Norman families and are frequently found fighting against
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff Church, Cardiff, and enthusiastically supported the work of his denomination in the city, e.g. as chairman of the Cardiff Baptist Board for 21 years. He was also president of the East Glamorgan Baptist Association, 1934-35. He took a keen interest in the missionary work of the Christian Endeavour Movement, and was president of the Welsh National Christian Endeavour Union in 1906-07 and 1923-24, and

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